bilb

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[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mine is "hence why," I become irrationally irritated when I see it, but try to harbor no malice towards people I see using it.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I didn't mean to cast doubt on what you observed, just to say that using a VPN might introduce an abnormal circumstance. I am curious to see for myself. I'm actually hoping to find a different result because man... That is dark.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Go try it. Use a VPN to block your IP, make a brand new account from a brand new email address and pop on and off a few times. I gaurantee that their shorts section will show you little girls in bikinis or skin tight leotards doing “gymnastics” that aren’t actually gymnastics. Click on one of them and read the insane comments from men very clearly saying they want to fuck these children.

I might actually try this, but it's worth noting that using a commercial VPN isn't exactly picking a pristine IP address at random, it's using an IP address that thousands of other people use for who-knows-what.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think the lack of specificity in "US Government officials" implies national, federal government and not small town municipal official. Calling the latter "US Government officials" feels weird. I guess a federal government official could approve funding for a local government somewhere, though.

I think this is just a case of sloppy memesmanship.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's interesting, there's something to that. They are hard to predict, and it puts me on edge. When they're just perched somewhere, it bothers me less.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I see a plenty of both, the brown moth in the pic would likely lay its wings down flat like that against the bark of a tree to hide.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

I couldn't say why, but many of them freak me out. I don't tend to demand that someone kill it, but I feel the "ew."

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ehhhh, I'm sure it will be fine. 😎

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Incidentally, do you know a way to overwrite you comments now? My 15 year account was banned for absolutely ridiculous reasons, but all of the options to blank out my comments cost money or require having a reddit dev account. Which, obviously, I cannot acquire.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I can imagine such a scenario. I can imagine being a manager of a team, and having someone come in and say that, and just feeling dread and sympathy. You're right, and not all employment situations are the same, not all managers are psychopaths. For many, though, they are not working under such "managers."

But I'm grateful to you for pushing back against the pervading darkness in our collective mind. Let it not, however, dampen our efforts to seek a remedy.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Probably. It probably still feels nice to take a hatchet to it and limit reddit's value to others going further. As anti-social as that sounds.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Boss: "Fair enough.".

Seems optimistic to me! I would expect "it is your responsibility to be here on time and ready to work. Leave earlier if you must."

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